Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of biology that focuses on the search for extraterrestrial life and the conditions conducive to the development of life, often using the techniques of astronomy to make measurements or observations.
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- noun The branch of
biology dealing withextraterrestrial lifeforms .
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- noun the branch of biology concerned with the effects of outer space on living organisms and the search for extraterrestrial life
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nog had remembered from horror-themed holonovels that aiming for the head and destroying the brain was the best way to deal with a zombie, but that was fiction, not in exobiology.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Nog had remembered from horror-themed holonovels that aiming for the head and destroying the brain was the best way to deal with a zombie, but that was fiction, not in exobiology.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Their existence will revolutionize the field of exobiology.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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Their existence will revolutionize the field of exobiology.
365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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It was the beginning, in concept at least, of what would later be called “abiogenesis,” “exobiology,” and finally “astrobiology.”
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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And how is this old news amongst the exobiology crowd? glycine: surely not random? trackback
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Amino Acids Are From Space !?! 2009
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It was the beginning, in concept at least, of what would later be called “abiogenesis,” “exobiology,” and finally “astrobiology.”
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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These experiments address all the major research areas: biology, exobiology, human physiology, fluid physics, fundamental physics, technology, solar physics.
Endeavour returns Bente Lilja Bye 2008
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Star Dragon is steeped in cosmology, the physics of interstellar travel, exobiology, artificial intelligence, bioscience.
Themes in Science Fiction: Cultural Relativism and Absolute Morality 2010
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Star Dragon is steeped in cosmology, the physics of interstellar travel, exobiology, artificial intelligence, bioscience.
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